Chapter XII - 1451k - the University Offices - University of Cambridge

FUNDS, STUDENTSHIPS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.
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FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM ENDOWMENT FUND
The income of the Fitzwilliam Museum Endowment Fund shall be used for the benefit of the Fitzwilliam
Museum.
FORBES FUND
Grace 1 of 19 May 2010
1. The gift of £2m to the University from Dr Colin Forbes shall form a fund called the Forbes
Fund.
2. The capital and income of the Fund shall be applied for such purposes in the Sedgwick Museum
of Earth Sciences as the Director and the Curators of the Museum and the Woodwardian Professor of
Geology jointly shall from time to time decide.
3. The Director of the Museum shall make an Annual Report on the outgoings of the Fund to the
Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography.
Title.
Purpose.
Annual Report.
MAX FORBES FUND
1. The sum of £6,000 given to the University by Mrs E. M. Forbes in memory of her husband
Lachlan Maxwell Forbes, of King’s College, shall form a fund called the Max Forbes Fund.
2. The income of the Fund shall be used, at the discretion of the Kettle’s Yard Committee, for the
promotion of concerts given by young musicians at Kettle’s Yard.
Title.
Purpose.
FORD OF BRITAIN TRUST FUND
1. The benefaction of the Trustees of the Ford of Britain Trust shall form a fund to be called the
Ford of Britain Trust Fund, which shall be used for the benefit of the Department of Engineering.
2. The income of the Fund shall be used at the discretion of the Degree Committee for the Faculty
of Engineering, and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, for making grants to Graduate
Students in the Department of Engineering.
3. The names of persons to whom grants have been awarded, but not the amounts of the grants,
shall be published each year. Grants shall be payable in the manner determined by the Degree
Committee for the Faculty of Engineering.
Title and
purpose.
Publication of
awards.
FORD PHYSIOLOGY FUND
1. The gift of $240,000 from the Ford Foundation shall form a fund called the Ford Physiology
Fund, the income of which shall be applied to further the study and dissemination of knowledge of
reproduction, especially those aspects that relate to the regulation of human fertility, by meeting the
cost of one or more University offices in the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience.
2. The University offices referred to in Regulation 1 shall be established by the General Board, after
consultation with the Faculty Board of Biology. The whole cost of each office so established shall be
met from the Ford Physiology Fund.
3. After provision has been made in accordance with Regulations 1 and 2, any surplus income shall
be applied as the General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Biology, shall from
time to time decide, to meet expenses associated with any office established under those regulations.
Title and
purpose.
Establishment
of offices.
Surplus
income.
FOREIGN TRAVEL FUND
Amended by Grace 5 of 5 June 2013
1. The sum bequeathed to the University by the late George Walter Grabham, M.A., of St John’s
College, shall form the nucleus of a fund called the Foreign Travel Fund which shall be administered
by the Council.
2. The income of the Fund shall be used to assist resident members of the Senate who have attained
the age of fifty years to travel abroad with a view to extending their knowledge in any branch of
learning with which their teaching or research is concerned.
Title.
Purpose.